TY - GEN
T1 - Respiratory rate monitoring of video terminal operators based on fiber optic technology
AU - Presti, Daniela Lo
AU - Zaltieri, Martina
AU - Di Tocco, Joshua
AU - Massaroni, Carlo
AU - D'Alesio, Giacomo
AU - D'Abbraccio, Jessica
AU - Filosa, Mariangela
AU - Oddo, Calogero
AU - Carrozza, Maria Chiara
AU - Ferrarin, Maurizio
AU - Di Rienzo, Marco
AU - Schena, Emiliano
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6/7
Y1 - 2021/6/7
N2 - Recognition of occupational stressors is a goal of primary importance to improve the psycho-physical health of workers. Many studies agree in considering the respiratory rate (RR) as a key parameter to be monitored since changes from normal physiological ranges can be closely related to states of mental and physical stress. Despite the wide availability of solutions devoted to RR detection, the utilization of light and unobtrusive wearable systems exploiting several sensing technologies is becoming more and more popular in recent years. Among others, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are gaining momentum due to their valuable properties (e.g., lightness, multiplexing capability, high sensitivity etc.) which make them suitable to be integrated into garments and appropriate for RR monitoring purpose. In this work, the feasibility assessment of an FBG-based wearable system for RR detection in a static occupational scenario is presented. A chest strap instrumented with two flexible sensors based on an FBG technology was exploited to perform 40 min of RR tracking on two video terminal workers. The proposed system was able to measure the respiratory signal over a prolonged time and showed high capability to estimate RR when compared to a reference instrument, as evinced by the obtained values of mean absolute error (MAE), always ≤ 1 bpm.
AB - Recognition of occupational stressors is a goal of primary importance to improve the psycho-physical health of workers. Many studies agree in considering the respiratory rate (RR) as a key parameter to be monitored since changes from normal physiological ranges can be closely related to states of mental and physical stress. Despite the wide availability of solutions devoted to RR detection, the utilization of light and unobtrusive wearable systems exploiting several sensing technologies is becoming more and more popular in recent years. Among others, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are gaining momentum due to their valuable properties (e.g., lightness, multiplexing capability, high sensitivity etc.) which make them suitable to be integrated into garments and appropriate for RR monitoring purpose. In this work, the feasibility assessment of an FBG-based wearable system for RR detection in a static occupational scenario is presented. A chest strap instrumented with two flexible sensors based on an FBG technology was exploited to perform 40 min of RR tracking on two video terminal workers. The proposed system was able to measure the respiratory signal over a prolonged time and showed high capability to estimate RR when compared to a reference instrument, as evinced by the obtained values of mean absolute error (MAE), always ≤ 1 bpm.
KW - Fiber Bragg grating sensors
KW - Occupation health
KW - Respiratory monitoring
KW - Soft sensors
KW - Wearables
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U2 - 10.1109/MetroInd4.0IoT51437.2021.9488453
DO - 10.1109/MetroInd4.0IoT51437.2021.9488453
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112038065
T3 - 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT, MetroInd 4.0 and IoT 2021 - Proceedings
SP - 439
EP - 443
BT - 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT, MetroInd 4.0 and IoT 2021 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT, MetroInd 4.0 and IoT 2021
Y2 - 7 June 2021 through 9 June 2021
ER -